Synonyms for intellectual
ˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əlin·tel·lec·tu·al

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1. intellectualnoun

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

2. intellectualnoun

   Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

3. intellectualadjective

   Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

4. intellectualadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

5. intellectualadjective

   Antonyms:
   non-intellectual

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1. intellectual

   Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

   Synonyms:
   able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented

   Antonyms:
   awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

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1. intellectual

   Synonyms:
   mental, metaphysical, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured

   Antonyms:
   unintellectual, unmetaphysical, unlearned

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1. intellectual, intellectadjective

   a person who uses the mind creatively

   Synonyms:
   mind, understanding, reason, intellect

   Antonyms:
   lowbrow, mindless, physical, lowbrowed, philistine, anti-intellectual, uncultivated, nonintellectual

2. intellectual, rational, noeticadjective

   of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

   "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

   Synonyms:
   cerebral, rational, noetic

   Antonyms:
   anti-intellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, physical, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

3. intellectualadjective

   appealing to or using the intellect

   "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"

   Synonyms:
   cerebral, rational, noetic

   Antonyms:
   philistine, physical, nonintellectual, uncultivated, lowbrowed, mindless, lowbrow, anti-intellectual

4. cerebral, intellectualadjective

   involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

   "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"

   Synonyms:
   cerebral, rational, noetic

   Antonyms:
   anti-intellectual, physical, mindless, uncultivated, nonintellectual, lowbrowed, philistine, lowbrow

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1. intellectualadjective

   Synonyms:
   mental, of the intellect, of the understanding

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1. List of paraphrases for "intellectual":

   intellectuelle, intelectual, knowledge, intellectuals, mental, spiritual, intelligentsia, cognitive, wisdom, thinker, knowledge-based

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1. Robert Green Ingersoll:

   Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.

2. Gary Nordlinger:

   Obama is deep, deep down an intellectual, he is a product of the Ivy Leagues and it makes perfectly reasonable sense why he chooses to surround himself with these type of people.

3. Peter Dutton:

   We have a very important trading relationship with China – incredibly important, but we are not going to allow university students to be unduly influenced, we are not going to allow theft of intellectual property, and we are not going to allow our government bodies or non-government bodies to be hacked into.

4. Paul Ryan:

   China does steal intellectual property, they do engage in unfair trade practices.

5. Milan Kundera:

   I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.